A visitor looks at portraits of Mao Zedong amid his statues on display at a wholesale souvenir store in Shaoshan, Hunan Province in central China, 28 April 2016. Shaoshan is the hometown of former Communist leader Mao Zedong, popularly known as Chairman Mao. Thousands of visitors descend on this small Chinese town burrowed in the hills of Central China's Hunan province to pay homage to the “Great Helmsman” everyday. It is one of the core sites of the “Red Tourism” industry, where communist party cadres and ordinary Chinese tourists alike seek to relive the experiences and rekindle the spirit of the revolutionaries. (Photo by How Hwee Young/EPA)





A Chinese worker adjusts Mao Zedong statues at a factory in Shaoshan, Hunan Province in central China, 29 April 2016. (Photo by How Hwee Young/EPA)





Statues of Mao Zedong are displayed for sale at a souvenir store in Shaoshan, Hunan Province in central China, 28 April 2016. (Photo by How Hwee Young/EPA)





Chinese visitors bow in front of Mao Zedong's giant statue on Mao Zedong Bronze Statue Square in Shaoshan, Hunan Province in central China, 28 April 2016. (Photo by How Hwee Young/EPA)





A Chairman Mao look-alike actor gestures to stop the photographer from taking his photo on the Mao Zedong Bronze Statue Square in Shaoshan, Hunan Province in central China, 27 April 2016. (Photo by How Hwee Young/EPA)





A view of the grand finale of “Mao Zedong Comes from China”, a show based on the former Chinese Communist leader's life at an outdoor theater in Shaoshan, Hunan Province in central China, 27 April 2016. The show depicts Mao's life experience during the upheavals of the revolution and civil war leading to the founding of the People's Republic of China. (Photo by How Hwee Young/EPA)





Actors dressed as Communist Red Army soldiers perform hanging from wires during “Mao Zedong Comes from China”, a show based on the former Chinese Communist leader's life at an outdoor theater in Shaoshan, Hunan Province in central China, 27 April 2016. (Photo by How Hwee Young/EPA)





A farmer walks into her farmland as a Mao Zedong statue overlooks the land in Shaoshan, Hunan Province in central China, 29 April 2016. (Photo by How Hwee Young/EPA)





Visitors queue to enter the former residence of Mao Zedong in Shaoshan, Hunan Province in central China, 28 April 2016. (Photo by How Hwee Young/EPA)





Visitors look at exhibits at the Shaoshan Mao Zedong Memorial Museum, in Shaoshan, Hunan Province in central China, 28 April 2016. (Photo by How Hwee Young/EPA)





Chinese sculptor Tian Yongjun adjusts his collar as he prepares to leave his workshop of Mao Zedong statues in Shaoshan, Hunan Province in central China, 29 April 2016. Tian has been a sculptor making Mao statues for over 20 years. (Photo by How Hwee Young/EPA)





Chinese sculptor Tian Yongjun works on a Mao Zedong sculpture in his workshop in Shaoshan, Hunan Province in central China, 29 April 2016. Tian has been a sculptor making Mao statues for over 20 years. (Photo by How Hwee Young/EPA)





Chinese food seller Liu Fuxiu sells eggs, sweet potatoes and corn at her stall outside the “Water Dripping Cave” compound, where Mao Zedong stayed briefly for 11 days in 1966 and is thought to have contemplated the start of the Cultural Revolution there in Shaoshan, Hunan Province in central China, 28 April 2016. (Photo by How Hwee Young/EPA)





souvenir hawker fans herself behind a veil at her stall selling Mao Zedong souvenirs outside the “Water Dripping Cave” compound, where Mao Zedong stayed briefly for 11 days in 1966 and is thought to have contemplated the start of the Cultural Revolution there in Shaoshan, Hunan Province in central China, 28 April 2016. (Photo by How Hwee Young/EPA)





Chinese visitors play a card game in a restaurant where a Mao Zedong statue overlooks them in the background in Shaoshan, Hunan Province in central China, 28 April 2016. (Photo by How Hwee Young/EPA)





A four-metre tall Mao Zedong statue overlooks a farmland in Shaoshan, Hunan Province in central China, 29 April 2016. (Photo by How Hwee Young/EPA)